>>3486066Cleaning lenses just means having the right tools and not opening them up too much. Some are just not meant to be worked on and opening them means you'll never get them back together again. Those are cheaply made in the first place. The good lenses will be a cake walk to clean. You just need to make sure you put the elements back in the right order and facing the correct direction.
>zoom tv lensPrimes will be better, but if the lenses are good in the first place then yes they will be good for macro. It will depend on what working distance you can get and how that may affect putting a lens hood on. Some lenses have their rear element very recessed into the mount. Those work well if the working distance is outside that, since the recess acts as a very good lens hood. The ones with elements rather exposed can be very subject to glares/flares from bright object downrange or flash. The same happens with normal lenses. In this case it is usually about using a lens hood to stop that.
>diy lens partsThat is a whole other world of photography. You have to play it by ear as to what they will be good for. Like some will work great for macro while others will only be good for portraiture. If you have a bellows, which usually start around 90mm of extension and a lens element that is 90mm or longer focal length, you can just slap it on the front of the bellows and have a new lens to play around with and be able to focus using the bellows.
Also, you should be resizing your images, unless there's something specific that needs to be seen in the full size for part of a conversation or whatever. I think your flash is too bright so you could probably bump up the speed to 1/120 or close to that without much loss. It should still sync.
>Detected possible malicious code in image file.hurrr
